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Campy knew there should be demand or a lighter pedal. My set came on my 1980 Masi (bought used around 1985). I had a set of the earlier 1037 steel-railed pedal (the spindle/arm central part was aluminum) as far back as 1969, when I was in high school.
One reason for not going with aluminum earlier could have been that metal slotted cleats wore out the aluminum rails over time. My Masi was raced when it was new and the rails show it. Perhaps the riding community let Campy know that wear was not a problem, I don't know.
The very close copy by Kyokuto from the late '60s into the 1970s, was also steel and if anything, heavier. Nice looking pedal, but the bearings were not as tight.
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Easiest way to date the hubs is to remove the locknuts and check the open format date codes stamped on the back. Hub locknuts don't get replaced very often, so the probability of them not being OEM is very small. However, make sure you check both locknuts on each hub, as Campagnolo wasn't very good with their stock rotation on small parts like these and you often find two different date codes.
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When they came out, I thought that the lighter Supperleggeri pedals would make a difference, racing, They looked pro, which didn't hurt either. I first got them in the fall of 74. With plastic cleats they didn't wear so fast. But with plastic cleats, you didn't walk in your shoes, with my Dettos of the time, to keep them stiff, I didn't walk 10 feet if I could help it. In '76, with fiberglass soled adidas, and Anquetil plastic cleats w/ metal inserts, the balance changed. And they rarely wore evenly, given the narrowness of the cleats.
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Who cared Bitd about date codes??? Certainly not Campy, or Falerio Masi, or... anyone. I personally never fractured a locknut, but had plenty of unmatched ones. Even on cranks, it was the other number stamp that really mattered, length. Pista, 'cause it meant 165 mm single ring generally speaking.
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Quite true. I've long wondered why Campagnolo didn't copy Zeus and use titanium for the cages. "Not invented here," maybe?
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KKT did make an aluminum cage version of the Pro-Ace as well, but curiously, unlike the steel cage version, it lacked the "kick-tab" to facilitate shoe entry into the toeclip:
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Any ideas as to what the time period was for the Record pedals, using chromed cages and having the strap loops on the ends/back side? I've seen Record chromed cage pedals with and without the strap loop, and not just ground away from breakage, or a cobbled attempt at lightening something.
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The KKT "Pro-Ace" pedals were as close a copy of the Record pedal as you're likely to find anywhere, right down to the rifling on the axles. The axles, cones, and locknuts also interchange with Record. I haven't found the bearings to be any less smooth than Record, either. You can often find Pro-Ace pedal at ridiculously low prices on eBay.
KKT did make an aluminum cage version of the Pro-Ace as well, but curiously, unlike the steel cage version, it lacked the "kick-tab" to facilitate shoe entry into the toeclip:
KKT did make an aluminum cage version of the Pro-Ace as well, but curiously, unlike the steel cage version, it lacked the "kick-tab" to facilitate shoe entry into the toeclip:
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Any ideas as to what the time period was for the Record pedals, using chromed cages and having the strap loops on the ends/back side? I've seen Record chromed cage pedals with and without the strap loop, and not just ground away from breakage, or a cobbled attempt at lightening something.
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Of course no one cared about date codes back in the day. Kind of handy these days though, all these years later.
It makes me wonder why Campy used them at all.
But only on hub lock nuts, crank arms and NR derailleurs, if memory serves.
It makes me wonder why Campy used them at all.
But only on hub lock nuts, crank arms and NR derailleurs, if memory serves.
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